Why is it we choose to spend billions and billions of dollars on the war machine?

Why is it we could go in undeveloped countries like Africa and stop the killings and the aids epidemic but our govt. chooses not to?

Why is it the same men and women who fight for this country can become homeless when our govt. speaks of how great patriots they are?

Why is it I have these questions? or am i losing my mind? Shalom...Miles

I dont think anyone should be homeless

And I dont think the warcriminals in the Pentagon should get anything but prison

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel

Let me see, perhaps.......

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:

2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine to them.

So, the adversary has some culpability....but then perhaps we have some too.

Jas 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Dan 9:8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Jer 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

Isa 45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Ezr 9:7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Art

We spend billions because that's the budget for the defense department. Without National Security, there's no country left to donate money to Africa and there's no private charities like the Gates foundation, Child Family Health Internaltional and others to help other people.

Homeless veterans are another story. I agree, there shouldn't be homeless people. If everyone adopted a homeless person, people wouldn't be homeless any more, perhaps. Some homeless are down on their luck, but some are on the run from the law, from their families and perhaps from God himself, as are we all.

God gives us our resources, our sight, our breath, our life, etc. If you haven't let him into your heart and into your life yet, I'd urge you to do so today. Then, he will guide you in how to help allocate his resources and how to pray to alleviate the problems you speak of.

War, squandering resources and homelessness are spiritual problems, first and we see the physical manifestations of those problems around us.

Cost Rica does not have an Army and they do just fine. In fact for that part of the world they may be doing the best. They can spend that money on things that mater (like health care)


So a country does not NEED an army to exist.

Actually, we do help Africa more than you would probably think. The last unit I was in sends about 50 marines every 2 years (and it's a reserve unit) Can only do so much though.

Hmmm well so far as The war machine defense is different than invasion. If we had actually been spending money on defense rather than invasion and our defense hadn't been called off duty 911 could have been prevented.

So far as the homeless we have a lot of them here. Last year I spent a lot of time talking to the homeless and i did take one of them into my house briefly. The thing is to keep one in your house they have to be willing to behave in tolerable ways so that you can still call it a home or safe environment.

I fail to see these as spiritual problems but problems spawned by corruption in government and in our society. The spiritual problem is in that people in their fear or ignorance go along with these problems and do not all speak against them.

This is all of course, my personal opinion...